Concrete CMS 9.4.5
9 October 2025
Concrete CMS version 9.4.5 is now available.
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What's New in Concrete CMS 9.4.5
9.4.5
Behavioral Improvements
- We now no longer wrap Grid Framework-based layouts in an extra row and column class.
- Fixed some UI quirks when mousing over table-based list views in the Dashboard.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: pages with editing canonical URLs are not correctly marked as in trash.
- Fixed: Nesting "Free-Form Layout" type Areas/Layouts breaks honouring the "Spacing" value
- Fixed: 5xx Server Error for calendar RSS feed.
- Fixed bug where privacy policy accept banner appeared strangely on the Stacks Dashboard page.
- Fixed bug where adding blocks to areas in the Dashboard Welcome screen would only allow you to add one block, and then you would be forced to reload the page.
- Fixed bug where saving theme customizations could force custom CSS dialog to render multiple times.
- Fixed notice error when configuring legacy themes.
Developer Updates
- $controller->buildRedirect(...) can now take a page object as its first argument (thanks mnakalay)
9.4.4
New Features
- Renamed “Automated Logout” Dashboard page to “Logout Options”; added options to the Dashboard page to control whether users see an explicit logout message when they log out.
- Added an option to log stack traces of uncaught exceptions, available in the Logging Settings Dashboard page (thanks mlocati)
Behavioral Improvements
- We now do a better job of keeping the current page in edit mode while you’re actively making changes to the page without it timing out (thanks mlocati)
- Improvements to Page List blocks when dealing with large data sets of pages and not ignoring permissions (thanks hissy)
- Improvements to button display in composer form and page versions panel when a page version has already been submitted to workflow (thanks hissy).
- Images placed in the Hero Image block will now preload with a <link> tag in the header, improving performance scores in webmaster tools (thanks hissy)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug where a user encounters an error when attempting to add a Form to a page via the Express Form block (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed: Express Entry Detail Block not returning results in version 9.4.3 (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed bug where certain web server configurations coupled with non-standard web requests could result in pages rendering with incorrect JS/CSS paths. Coupled with full page caching and a request could result in a cached page with broken assets.
- Fixed: Default HTTP client options found in config/app.php were old and mostly not properly honored. Now new proper config options and default values are provided (thanks ArniPL)
- Fixed display bug in Chrome and possibly other browsers where the first click on a block in a page would briefly highlight the block with an opaque color, instead of the semi-transparent green it should.
- Fixed PHP warnings in Text encoding service (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed bug where filtering users by certain groups could return incorrect users if the group names were similar (thanks mlocati)
- Fix the behavior of sitemap selector not working for level 3 and lower when working with the selectFromSitemap or selectMultipleFromSitemap methods in the PageSelector class (thanks parasek)
- Fixed: multiple instances of the Social Links attribute do not work on a user profile page.
- Fixed: Folder Name is not sorted correctly in document library (thanks SashaMcr)
- Fixed many bugs and inconsistencies when importing and export attributes as CIF XML (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed avaScript error in Express Search Form: $(...).datepicker is not a function when using a date/time attribute with an Express List block (thanks hissy)
- Fixed bug where "Display in browser" option was still forcing files to download when using the Document Library (thanks hissy)
- Fixed: LinkAbstractor::export does not export concrete-picture element collectly (thanks hissy)
- Avoid multiline comments in i18n comments (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed: “undefined” text shown in confirmation modal when removing permissions in bulk via Page Search